Dennis Cote wrote: > On 10-02-23 3:23 PM, Darren Duncan wrote: >> Elefterios Stamatogiannakis wrote: >> >>> Madis is a extensible relational database system built upon the SQLite >>> database and with extensions written in Python (via APSW SQLite >>> wrapper). Its is developed at: >>> >>> http://madis.googlecode.com >> > Hi Darren, > > I don't think there is any reasonable grounds to expect confusion > between these two products. To me the names are only vaguely similar. > > Furthermore, if you have an issue with his use of "madis" being too > similar to your products name, then you probably have an similar issue > (with roles reversed) concerning Borland's (now Embarcadero) database > middle ware product "midas" which was announced in April of 1997. > > Perhaps "multics" is another example of a product name that is quite > similar to yours, and who's use pre-dates yours considerably. One of its > claimed novelties was that "Multics implemented a single level store for > data access" which could easily be confused with database functionality. > > I'm not a lawyer, but I don't think you would have much ground to stand > on in trademark dispute, especially if you have not registered your > trademark.
Thanks for your response. So people know in general, Elefterios and I had already talked about the matter in private, and I also got another third party response like Dennis's, and suffice it to say I have no serious problem with the current situation, and I consider the matter closed. It was only a borderline case to begin with anyway. In other words, I'm quite fine with Madis continuing with their name, although from the discussion they might be officially casing it MadIS from now on, which would increase the visual difference. I also suggested that there may be unrelated reasons to change their name. As I suggest to anyone coming up with a project, try inventing a new word that doesn't match anything in Google (and otherwise is easy to read and pronounce) and use that for a name. This way, when someone searches on your project name, they don't have to wade through a whole bunch of unrelated uses of the same word. Also it means all the domain names of the word would be free. Currently a Google search for "madis" turns up lots of other companies and technologies and people's names and other things, besides Elefterios' project. So a unique name is simply about standing out in the crowd. (Incidentally, I *have* registered my trademark. But that is a non-issue here.) -- Darren Duncan _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list [email protected] http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
